Packers name Cam Accord special teams coordinator

The Green Bay Packers have named Cam Accord special teams coordinator. Head Coach Matt LaFleur made the announcement Friday.

(AY-cord) Acord involves the Packers with 10 years of expertise teaching special teams within the NFL, together with 4 seasons as a coordinator. Over the previous two seasons he served as assistant special teams coach with the New York Giants (2024-25). Last season he helped coach a unit that returned 70 kickoffs for a single-season-record 1,942 yards (27.7 avg.), surpassing the earlier report of 1,688 yards set in 1964. The Giants’ 27.7 kickoff return common was the second-highest mark in a single season in franchise historical past and ranked No. 5 amongst all NFL teams in 2025. In 2024, the Giants had two gamers earn NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honors. Isaiah Simmons was named the Week 5 recipient after he blocked Seattle’s Jason Myers 47-yard game-tying area objective try that Bryce-Ford Wheaton caught and returned it 60 yards for the clinching landing. Ihmir Smith-Marsette was the second Giant to earn the respect after he returned a kickoff 100 yards for a TD in Week 17.

Before New York, Achord spent six years teaching special teams for the New England Patriots, first as assistant special teams coach from 2018-19 after which because the special teams coordinator from 2020-23. The Patriots completed No. 3 within the NFL with a 26.2-yard kickoff return common in 2023 whereas their protection group was No. 6, permitting a median 20.6 yards. In 2022, Achord led a unit ranked No. 1 within the NFL with 418 punt return yards and No. 3 with 1,274 whole return yards as rookie Marcus Jones earned first-team All-Pro honors from The Associated Press as a punt returner after he ranked No. 2 in whole return yards (1,007) and punt return common (10.7 yards), and No. 1 in punt return yards (362), and had the longest punt return (84 yards). In 2020, the Patriots ranked No. 1 in Rick Gosselin’s annual rankings of all 32 NFL teams’ special teams. That season and in 2021, New England ranked No. 4 in opponent kickoff return beginning area place. Gunner Olszewski earned first-team All-Pro honors from the AP as a punt returner in 2020 after main the league in punt return yards (346) and common (17.3 yards, together with a 70-yard TD).

Prior to his time within the NFL, Achord spent 5 seasons with Southwest Mississippi Community College (2013-17), the place he served because the offensive, special teams, and recruiting coordinator, and coached quarterbacks, operating backs and tight ends. In 2012, he was an offensive graduate assistant, working with the quarterbacks, on the University of Southern Mississippi and in 2010-11 he was a special teams graduate assistant and labored with the linebackers for the Golden Eagles. Achord was a four-year starter at free security at Belhaven University, serving as a group captain in 2008 and 2009.